DTAH is a Toronto based practice that has been focusing on the relationships between landscape, architecture, urbanism, infrastructure and public art for over 40 years. Projects that explore the social aspect of public space draw our greatest attention and we seek opportunities to contribute to public realm utilizing progressive, implementable and expressive practices of design.

An ode to the construction wave. A celebration of growth, prosperity, and sustainable optimism. The installation Orange Crush reflects on the moment when the boom swings overhead, casting shadows of transformation below. The city we live in cloaks itself in orange plastic.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

TEXTILES is a dynamic and creative group of designers, interested in telling a narrative about a role of textiles in our contemporary society, through immersive art installation.

The project is inspired by a talented and successful carpet designer’s story of carpet weavers in countries like Nepal and Iran. The installation explores the beautiful world of fibers, pattern and weaver culture through a theme of a Common Thread.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Annie Tung is a multidisciplinary artist and digital designer living in the City of Toronto. She concentrates in abstract painting, experimental video and installation. As a digital designer, Annie designs new concepts for websites and touchscreens. Her artwork has been shown at venues such as Nuit Blanche Toronto, Roy Thomson Hall, and Toronto DigiFest.

X is an installation that cultivates the idea of hidden messages and unknown desires. We sometimes cannot control our words or action and become frustrated. There are no words to explain this frustration, but only a desire to break out from the shell.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Mutt Kaw currently resides and works in Toronto both independently and as a member of “Heretical Objects Co-op”. Working primarily in mixed media collage and sculpture, he is predominantly self-taught, directing his work’s course through instinctual choice. Steeped in the symbolic messages of forgotten cultures, his work conjures images of the past, present, and future.

Die and be reborn invites the viewer to witness the split second before the soul leaves the physical form behind; the moment in which we to turn to dust and take on another form in a never ending cycle of life, death, and reincarnation.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

LeuWebb Projects is a collaborative venue for creative exploration. Christine Leu and Alan Webb seek to engage people with both the tangible and the ephemeral by activating the senses and inviting participation. They have exhibited previously at the Gladstone Hotel’s Come Up To My Room, Toronto Design Offsite Festival, Toronto Public Libraries, and Scotiabank Nuit Blanche.

Reflections on Rotation draws on the Gladstone’s rich history, suggesting portals to new possibilities and unforeseen outcomes. The archetypal guest room mirror takes on magical qualities through its evanescent re-colouring, inviting the telling of fortunes and sharing of secrets. The rotating mirrors allow for fleeting and distorted glances, casting shifting images and projecting light in fluid motion.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Fareena Chanda is a multi-disciplinary artist and the co-founder of The Friday Collective, a creative business which makes art to inspire reflection. Fareena Chanda’s studio-practice uses a process-based inquiry to explore themes of self-knowledge. Using time-based media and installation-art practices, her work incorporates materiality, embodiment and hapticity to create immersive experiences.

From Now Until The End, And Now Again explores the human relationship to our mortality. A walk through a fantastical garden to a final resting place evokes contemplation on our preparedness to face the end. The immersive mixed-media installation invites the viewer to commit their mind and body to the physical space around them and imagine themselves undergoing sublimation. The piece aims to heighten our perception of our temporality in this world by ultimately asking each individual ‘where are you headed?’

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Jacky Lac, Priscilla Lee and Julian Paulo Rodrigues are young designers studying Interior Design at Ryerson University. As they transition from students to designers in the industry, their ambitions have led them to band together to showcase their unique interpretation of what defines an interior space.

An off-kiltered world, a space of otherness; reflectance questions and transforms a composition that alters the presence of space. Through manipulations of reflective materials, our entitlement to this process is to give depth to a surface. Alula encapsulates: identities, space, time and form. Instagram: wearealula

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

MAW is a collective of six artists which formed in Montreal, Quebec. Since 2011 they have shown within Canada and internationally. MAW functions as a single entity, constantly propagating and developing a collective mythology through sculpture, installations, and video works. In 2014 members of MAW moved to an ancillary studio in Hamilton, Ontario – while the majority of the collective works and resides in Montreal.

It’s Cold! It’s Cold! Caged, and Breezy ~ “What control does one really have. In the Cold. Over objects. We are encaging what we make, protecting it, imprisoning it, feeding/nurturing/loving it. The location is lost on those who do not hate the damp or those who fear the cold. You are lost and should not be here. If I were to tell you you knew nothing about the swamp, would you feel inferior? The caged in us is right — the smile on your face is wrong.”

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Oliver Paukand Michael Vickers are visual artists who collaborate on the management of the Akin Collective studios and also on multiple other fine art projects. Together, their projects employ sculptural, installation, and projection-based elements involving industrial materials, geometric patterns and manipulations of light and colour.

Spectra Logic is an ongoing series of site specific works centred around processes involving digital manipulations and activations of space created for one-time performances. The work is grounded in the relationship between man, materials and contrasting landscapes and environments.

Come Up To My Room 2015 (CUTMR)is the Gladstone Hotel’s 12th annual alternative design event. 25 installations, 40 artists, and 4000 visitors, and with an extended run of 10 days! CUTMR invites artists and designers to show us what goes on inside their heads. Coming together in dialogue and collaboration, participants are limited only by their imaginations, making CUTMR one of the most exciting shows in Toronto. The exhibition, curated by Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Caitlin Plewes, as been running for over a decade and was voted the People’s Choice for the 2014 Toronto Design Offsite Festival.

CUTMR’15 runs from January 16th to 25th, 2015 / $10 General or $15 Festival Pass / Monday to Friday from 12pm to 5pm / Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 7pm

Collage Collective is a group of artists, creative collaborators, and friends who gather at cultural venues and events around Toronto to show and make collage together.

Cut it OUT!Trinity Collage Fest at CUTMR will be one giant collage party in the Melody Bar. Collage Collective invites you to make a collaborative work of public art inspired by our beloved Trinity Bellwoods. Join Collage Collective in creating fantastical interpretations of the park using images collected from social media and historical photographs of the area. At the first sign of spring we’ll hang the community’s masterpiece in the park to welcome the fine weather and fun times!

Come Up To My Room(CUTMR) Toronto’s largest alternative design show enters a new decade with new initiatives and a diverse lineup of local and national talent: 25 installations, 60 artists, and 4000 visitors, all in under 4 days. Gladstone Managing Director of Art, Britt Welter-Nolan is joined by three new curatorial forces: Jaclyn Blumas, Robert Cram and Elise Hodson.